Ani-Anti / Ani Anti Variant

Variant spelling of ANI-ANTI

Anianti

Alma 21:11

P: Anianti > Ani Anti >+ Ani-Anti

1830-1849, 1858: Ani-anti

1852, 1879-1888, 1902-1907, 1911-1920, 1981: Ani-Anti

Ani Anti

Alma 21:11

P: Anianti > Ani Anti >+ Ani-Anti

1830-1849, 1858: Ani-anti

1852, 1879-1888, 1902-1907, 1911-1920, 1981: Ani-Anti

Ani-anti

Alma 21:11

P: Anianti > Ani Anti >+ Ani-Anti

1830-1849, 1858: Ani-anti

1852, 1879-1888, 1902-1907, 1911-1920, 1981: Ani-Anti

Discussion: Cowdery first spelled it as Anianti, immediately changed it to Ani Anti, later inserted a hyphen to become Ani-Anti in P; set by the 1830 compositor to Ani-anti in the 1830. There is evidence that Anti is a distinct morpheme, as in ANTI-NEPHI-LEHI. The hyphen is used as in the names SHEAR-JASHUB and MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ, which do not have their following words capitalized because they are sentences in HEBREW.

Acceptability: Skousen accepts Ani-Anti.

Source: ATV 4:2037; 5:3330-31.